The noun clause is <span>how the Aztecs made their astronomical calculations.
</span>Just invert the whole sentence - The subject of my next paper is <span>how the Aztecs made their astronomical calculations.
</span>The whole clause is used as the direct object.
The soldiers and the journalists that were writing about it were very close to the action. They wrote about their experiences. Moreover, the Vietnam literature has no “escape hatches” (meaning we don't have comic relief, no moments of romance, and scant emphasis on coming-of-age energy). The primary goal was to make us feel like we were there.
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The title comes from a line in one of Shakespear's plays.
"The Fault in Our Stars" is kind of like another way to say "our really bad luck". I believe the title relates to events that take place in the story. Events such as Hazel getting cancer, Augustus getting cancer and having his leg amputated, and Gus' death.
Of course, Hazel and Gus didn't cause the cancer - it just happened. Although they went to the doctor and for treatments frequently, they weren't able to avoid it. Nor were they able to avoid Gus' death.
The figure of speech used in the sentence above is PERSONIFICATION.
Personification is a figure of speech which attributes personal nature or human characteristics to an inanimate objects. In the sentence given above, the author wrote that 'the wind whispers and the stream giggles. These are actions that only human beings can carry out, but the author is given the attributes to wind and stream, which are inanimate objects.
I think so.. does this help?
